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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Slash27 on January 23, 2007, 10:08:56 PM
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I found out cable internet is available finally in my area. Is offered in 256, 5meg, and 7 meg. I honeslty dont know enough about it. I assume the higher the number the faster but how fast is good enough? The 5 meg is $32 a month and the 7meg is $45 a month. Input?
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5mb will do you fine. They are throttling your top end but most pulls won't come that fast anyways due to other restrictions.
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Restrictions like the speed at which they can send you information.
Working with comcast, they kept upping their speeds. I believe they are up to 7 or 8 MBpS. The highest speed I've ever downloaded was 1.2-1.3 megabytes a secon. Most places don't top 400 kilobytes a second for me.
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It also depends on your neighborhood....how many users they have, etc.
My folks live in a densely populated neighborhood. Their bandwidth varies a lot but all the times Ive tested it, its seldom been higher than 1.5mb down.
Mine, where I'm one pole away from the hub, which attaches to fiber, gets anywhere between 5mb to 9mb :D
Neighbors always ask me if i like cable. I tell em it stinks, go DSL....and stay off my huge pipeline LOL
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You also need to take into account your location. The chief geek (local version of Skuzz) of my ISP has Comcrap Cable as his primary. He regularly gets pings in the 7-900 ms range and even though Comcrap says his speed is 6mb/s, he's never seen anything above 2mb/s. Yet my apt. manager has the same service, in a different neighborhood, and sees pings around 90ms and regularly snags 4mb/s during a download (see below). So don't go paying for rocket fast speeds you probably won't see. Your best bet is to locate a neighbor with the same access you're looking to get and ask to try it out. Pack along a copy of PingPlotter on a floppy to check pings, and try bagging a mongo game demo to check download speed.
If it looks good, such as pings under 200ms and bandwidth speeds close to what they paid for, go for it. However, if the average ping is over 600ms or you regularly see 1.1mb/s on an 8mb/s line, you're probably better off with what you've got. Cable internet uses the "node" method of connecting you to the 'net. Your neighborhood is wired into one node. If a lot of people in your immediate area have cable access, it'll never be close to the speed you pay for. The reverse is also true; a few people in one node means nice pings and beautiful speeds.
In my area I've got exactly two choices for "high speed." First is Comcrap. Lousy customer service, charges that'll make you scream ($54 a month for "6mb/s") and techs that can't tell the diff between ms and pms. But, the pings are okay and speed is nice. Or I can go Qwest DSL, get charged far too much for phone service, be sent to a collection agency over cash I don't owe, and talk to Baba Gadoush in Bangladesh every time the service conks.
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I have Optimum Online Boost.. Up to 30 mbps downstream, 5 mbps upstream capability.
My regards,
Widewing
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braodbandreports.com will give you better input that these n00blwerfers
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As far as AH goes, Slash, not a lot of data is flowing anyway. Your latency should reduce, but still be the same regardless of which plan you choose. I would say take the 5 Mbps service. Two more (supposed) Mbps won't make that much difference in your web surfing.
I won't tell you what I have for almost the same price, because you'll want to choke me. :p
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I pretty much want to choke you anyway Rolex, but thanks for the info.:D
Thank you guys.
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I've had a 5meg service through Cox Communications for a couple of years now and have no complaints. I can upload and download whatever I want pretty quick and game play has always been reliable.
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Originally posted by LePaul
Neighbors always ask me if i like cable. I tell em it stinks, go DSL....and stay off my huge pipeline LOL
the only problem with that tactic is the fact that the phone companies are out for cable (video) blood. cable has hurt phone co high speed and now telephone biz to the point they are pouring millions of dollars into fiber to the house all in one systems aimed at eliminating any competition..and they have pockets deep enough to make that happen.
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Sorry folks but,... American Internet simply sucks... is outdated,.. and ridiculously expensive.
My Korean "Internet 2" is well.. fast... and simply amazing.
16 to 20 megabytes (YES MegaBYTES) as in 20 x 1024 Kilobytes Down and about 5 to 6 Megabytes Upstream. :aok
Korean Internet is simply the best on the planet it seems. Oh.. and for all this,.. a mere 30 bucks a month..
Go Megapass / KT telecom.. ;)
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Yeager, I've never heard of Korean Internet. I have comcast - and apparently ALL my neighbors have it too, considering my speeds, which ain't comcastic. How/where do you get Korean Internet?
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please don't tell me Korea.
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Wasnt it the Koreans who wanted to tax Voice-Over-IP telephone calls? I remember an article somewhere where they were trying to make sure their phone companies got the expensive business of GI's calling home.
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Originally posted by Yeager2
Sorry folks but,... American Internet simply sucks... is outdated,.. and ridiculously expensive.
My Korean "Internet 2" is well.. fast... and simply amazing.
16 to 20 megabytes (YES MegaBYTES) as in 20 x 1024 Kilobytes Down and about 5 to 6 Megabytes Upstream. :aok
Korean Internet is simply the best on the planet it seems. Oh.. and for all this,.. a mere 30 bucks a month..
Go Megapass / KT telecom.. ;)
Well, when they come to install I'll just ask for the Korean stuff.:huh
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Originally posted by Slash27
Well, when they come to install I'll just ask for the Korean stuff.:huh
Is that that same stuff you can rub onto your hands and do the dishes real fast like in the commercial? ;)
I have comcast for both TV and internet and have no real complaints other then the price.
$120 for internet and TV is a bit much.
Starting to look for alternatives